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Richest 10% drive global warming: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... 0.61°C higher compared to 1990. They traced about 65% of this increase to the world's top 10% richest people. For extreme events, they found that this cohort contributed seven times the average to increases in monthly one-in-100-year heat extremes globally ...

Investors continue to dump Climate Active certifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... exit from the government's Climate Active scheme. Launched in 2019, Climate Active certifies organisations, products, events and brands as being carbon neutral. IFM Investors was certified under the Climate Active scheme in 2023, with some of its ...

Chief executive misbehaviour stifles investment returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... chief executives and senior leaders have the potential to erode investment returns, according to Acadian Asset Management. Events like these can shake company valuations, demonstrating the importance of having the right checks and balances in place to ...

Ethical investment holdings double: CoreData

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... The CoreData research obtained by Financial Standard seeks to capture shifting sentiment, trends, and responses to market events, across different wealth levels, ranging from mass affluent - investors with a household income of at least $150,000 to $300,000 ...

Australian Ethical grows FUM to $13.26bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... risks and costs affect investors, directly and indirectly, short term and over the long term, and recent extreme weather events illustrate the growing financial as well as human impact of environmental degradation." Australian Ethical will provide its ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... wealth fund, Grey had run internal 'fire drills' to heighten the fund's readiness and preparedness for shock events. The value of the fire drill was getting people together quickly if markets moved through certain price levels or in uncertain ...

Readers act on news when it impacts returns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... tool for money-making. Watts, Qianqian Li, and Christina Zhu looked at investor behaviour around 54,000 ESG-related news events between 2015 and 2022 for nearly 3,300 publicly traded companies. They found retail trading went up by 6% on the days there ...

What to expect in 2025

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... investors to shore up regulatory certainty, according to Dunstan. There are "intricate connections between geopolitical events and domestic politics, underscoring the importance of adhering to investment fundamentals," she says. "In addition to tense ...

Perpetual reveals decade of philanthropy insights

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... The report said this modest growth may be partly due to increased funder awareness because of catastrophic major weather events and biodiversity collaborations across Australia. The next generation within family foundations have also played a role in ...

Green moves: Westpac, Care Super, BlackRock, Quinbrook, Ortec, CAA

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... institutions on climate strategy integration. "There is inevitably growing concern and heightened focus on how [climate-related] events will impact asset classes and investment decision making over the short and long-term," said de Reus. He will support ...
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